I have taught fourth grade for 12 years and always had the lowest kids. What I have found is the problem is they don't understand or know the third grade place value. I know this sounds horrible but...

Our school is in our second year of using the GO Math series. We are a Title I school. The first year it was horrrribbble to teach. The second year I love it! We had to learn to be realistic, because...

I am in my second year with GO Math, and have learned a lot. I totally agree with the earlier post there are gaps between what is expected for students to already know and it does present challenges....

Does anyone have any smartboard lessons for fourth grade physical science standards. I have one for matter, but was looking for something on forms of energy, transfer of energy, or motion of objects....

Ixl.com is a great website, it allows you to have 20 practice problems with each standard without a liscense. But if your school would purchase it, you will love it. It lets you monitor your students...

I put my vocabulary words from my reading series on my word wall. I challenge students all year to incorporate as many words from the word wall into the journal response and writing stories. I do the...

I teach support facilitation in fourth. I found a lot of the boys like the non-fiction books. Also there's a series of books written by Andy Griffith. I can't think of the name of series, but some of...

I have a Human Resources Manager- this person handles absences, switching and retraining of jobs. When their time is up they must train the new Human Resources Manger. Just makes the whole job system...